Day for Night
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Movie Reviews of Day for Night
Movie Review: A Love Letter About Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Hollywood keeps making films that, since "Sunset Boulevard," see filmmaking as some kind of gothic tragedy. "La Nuit Americaine" sees it as a struggle towards just making a film done, inspite of all kinds of problems. There is no question here however that love, sex, egos, alcoholism, and the rest are all part of just trying to make a film; still, it strangely comes together through a totally humane, generous and, when it serves, a self depricating genius of film making (Truffaut). Why else would Spielberg cast him as he does in CE3K? Also, note that the film begins with Georges Delerue's musical optical track. Great stuff.Movie Review: Estupenda película
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderful film, that any lover of the cinema cannot be lost, mainly
because is cinema within the cinema and the magic of the
cinematographic accomplishment. The DVD has good extras, documentary
and interviews, although some do not have without subtitles and that
can be annoying for some people hispanoparlanntes.
My only complaint is that the broken box arrived and evidentmente was
not broken by bad maipulación during its transport, since noticed
that already it was broken before empacar it.
Movie Review: Exhilarating and joyous comedy!
Summary: 5 Stars
This an affectionate satire on the art and the madness of making movies . Lighthearted, charming beauty, faultlessly acted by Truffaut himself and a cast hyper inspired.
Fundamental issue in Truffaut cinematography .
Art Cinema in its highest level .
Movie Review: Must-watch french movie from one Master filmmaker!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you haven't watch it, you should. If you have, congratulations, you've watched one of the masterpieces of cinema history!Movie Review: Truffaut's Meditation on Movie Making
Summary: 4 Stars
"Day for Night," ("La Nuit Americaine," 1973), is a widely-distributed French film by one of the leaders of the French "nouvelle vague" (New Wave) school of filmmaking, Francois Truffaut(Francois Truffaut's Adventures of Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows / Antoine & Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed & Board / Love on the Run) - Criterion Collection). It is a comedy/drama, a movie for people who love movies, made by a director - Truffaut--who certainly loved movie-making, and who plays the director, Ferrand, struggling to complete his movie within the movie while in the midst of a storm of financial troubles, and personal and professional problems among cast and crew.
The cast is certainly distinguished. The lovely Jacqueline Bisset (The Deep) stars as Julie Baker, the troubled American film star whom the company needs to make a financial success of the picture they are making. The veteran Italian actress Valentina Cortese (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) plays Severine, veteran actress; the veteran French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (Heartbeat) plays Alexandre, veteran actor. They've previously worked together in Hollywood, we are told, and, apparently, are also better-acquainted than that, although Alexandre's sexuality will come into question during the making of the movie. Jean-Pierre Leaud,(Bed & Board: Domicile Conjugal) whom Truffaut frequently used to play a young man not unlike himself, plays Alphonse, an erratic, irritating, talented, selfish and spoiled young actor. Nathalie Baye(Catch Me If You Can (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)), now a very popular leading French actress, in her first job fresh out of the Academie Francaise, France's most distinguished acting school, plays the script girl Joelle. The French veteran Jean Champion plays Bertrand. Graham Greene, the great English novelist, (Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)), who sometimes lived on the Riviera, and whom Truffaut was anxious to meet, plays an unaccredited cameo as an insurance man: Truffaut wasn't informed of his identity until later.
The film's score, a tuneful beauty, is by Georges Delerue. The script was written by Truffaut, with his frequent collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, and Jean-Louis Richard; it was, of course, directed by Truffaut. It's one of his last films, and was meant to be, with the theater-oriented The Last Metro: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray], one of a group of films saluting the French lively arts.
The picture is set largely in the south of France, at the famous -within France, at least - Victorine Studios, an old facility whose still-standing streetscapes, used in earlier movies but never torn down due to the expense involved, quite likely enabled Truffaut's movie to be made, from the financial point of view. It deals accurately, lovingly, with the difficulties involved in making a picture, from finding a cat that can act, to the death of a principal actor during filming. It shows Ferrand, the director, as a deaf man who lives what he does, and is willing to deal with any difficulties involved. At one point, he explains to his troubled people that real life is not like the movies, things just don't happen as neatly. However, Ferrand is also, as is Truffaut's director in "The Last Metro," willing to use any scrap of the turmoil of his cast and crew, and/or to create more turmoil, if it will strengthen his product.
In sum, the movie's rather mild, as movies go, but it has some really hilarious scenes -- check out the poorly performing cat. And there's rarely been a more clear-eyed, meticulous, or affectionate portrayal of movies as they are made. So it's still worth seeing.